VS.NET 2003 Upgrade
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So I finally order the VS.NET 2003 upgrade from Amazon. The CDs arrived the other day. I'm thinking great -- perhaps this is better than VS.NET 2002 and I'll finally switch from VS6. My main development machine has a Pioneer DVD-R drive as the sole mechanism for CD/DVD use. Unfortunately, at some point a few months ago (after updating Windows XP) the drive quit working. Well, it seems like it works -- but any attempt to actually access any CD or DVD inserted into it will cause Windows XP to perpetually hang -- until the disc is ejected. :mad: I've removed the drivers, updated them, reinstalled them, etc... a million different things... but no matter what the same thing keeps happening. OK, so F-that, I have better things to do and have other computers on my LAN... so I lean over, share the CD drive of the computer next to me... and from that point on have been using that (via the LAN) whenever I need to access a CD. Now back to installing VS.NET 2003... I'm pondering the whole concept of having VS6, VS.NET 2002, and VS.NET 2003 installed... examine my disk space (which is getting low) so I decide to remove VS.NET 2002 before installing VS.NET 2003. Fine. That is done. Then I start to install VS.NET 2003 via the shared CD drive on the computer next to me.... and it gets to a point where the VS.NET 2003 setup says something like "Can't find a copy of VS.NET 2002 to upgrade... insert the VS.NET 2002 CD for verification"... so I do that... then notice that the dialog box ONLY allows me to specify a CD drive on my local machine (Drive E: in this case -- which won't work)... and there is no option to pick anything else! Grrrr!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :wtf: So basically, VS.NET 2003 Upgrade can only be installed from a local CD drive... so I can't install it until I open up my case, rip that Pioneer DVD-R drive out, throw it across the room, and replace it with something else... I'd like to take a stick to the idiot at Microsoft who designed that "feature". :lame: Oh well... at least the decision to keep using VC6 was an easy one (for now) and I don't have VS.NET 2002 wasting my disk space anymore.
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So I finally order the VS.NET 2003 upgrade from Amazon. The CDs arrived the other day. I'm thinking great -- perhaps this is better than VS.NET 2002 and I'll finally switch from VS6. My main development machine has a Pioneer DVD-R drive as the sole mechanism for CD/DVD use. Unfortunately, at some point a few months ago (after updating Windows XP) the drive quit working. Well, it seems like it works -- but any attempt to actually access any CD or DVD inserted into it will cause Windows XP to perpetually hang -- until the disc is ejected. :mad: I've removed the drivers, updated them, reinstalled them, etc... a million different things... but no matter what the same thing keeps happening. OK, so F-that, I have better things to do and have other computers on my LAN... so I lean over, share the CD drive of the computer next to me... and from that point on have been using that (via the LAN) whenever I need to access a CD. Now back to installing VS.NET 2003... I'm pondering the whole concept of having VS6, VS.NET 2002, and VS.NET 2003 installed... examine my disk space (which is getting low) so I decide to remove VS.NET 2002 before installing VS.NET 2003. Fine. That is done. Then I start to install VS.NET 2003 via the shared CD drive on the computer next to me.... and it gets to a point where the VS.NET 2003 setup says something like "Can't find a copy of VS.NET 2002 to upgrade... insert the VS.NET 2002 CD for verification"... so I do that... then notice that the dialog box ONLY allows me to specify a CD drive on my local machine (Drive E: in this case -- which won't work)... and there is no option to pick anything else! Grrrr!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :wtf: So basically, VS.NET 2003 Upgrade can only be installed from a local CD drive... so I can't install it until I open up my case, rip that Pioneer DVD-R drive out, throw it across the room, and replace it with something else... I'd like to take a stick to the idiot at Microsoft who designed that "feature". :lame: Oh well... at least the decision to keep using VC6 was an easy one (for now) and I don't have VS.NET 2002 wasting my disk space anymore.
Do a "map network drive" (My Computer/Tools) to the other machines CD (which should give you a new drive letter) and then try it. Steve
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Do a "map network drive" (My Computer/Tools) to the other machines CD (which should give you a new drive letter) and then try it. Steve
Been there, done that. Same thing. The setup program for VS.NET 2003 will only provide a list of CD/DVD drives actually present on the machine you're trying to upgrade.
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Do a "map network drive" (My Computer/Tools) to the other machines CD (which should give you a new drive letter) and then try it. Steve
Prob wont work. I think they only look for removable drives.
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So I finally order the VS.NET 2003 upgrade from Amazon. The CDs arrived the other day. I'm thinking great -- perhaps this is better than VS.NET 2002 and I'll finally switch from VS6. My main development machine has a Pioneer DVD-R drive as the sole mechanism for CD/DVD use. Unfortunately, at some point a few months ago (after updating Windows XP) the drive quit working. Well, it seems like it works -- but any attempt to actually access any CD or DVD inserted into it will cause Windows XP to perpetually hang -- until the disc is ejected. :mad: I've removed the drivers, updated them, reinstalled them, etc... a million different things... but no matter what the same thing keeps happening. OK, so F-that, I have better things to do and have other computers on my LAN... so I lean over, share the CD drive of the computer next to me... and from that point on have been using that (via the LAN) whenever I need to access a CD. Now back to installing VS.NET 2003... I'm pondering the whole concept of having VS6, VS.NET 2002, and VS.NET 2003 installed... examine my disk space (which is getting low) so I decide to remove VS.NET 2002 before installing VS.NET 2003. Fine. That is done. Then I start to install VS.NET 2003 via the shared CD drive on the computer next to me.... and it gets to a point where the VS.NET 2003 setup says something like "Can't find a copy of VS.NET 2002 to upgrade... insert the VS.NET 2002 CD for verification"... so I do that... then notice that the dialog box ONLY allows me to specify a CD drive on my local machine (Drive E: in this case -- which won't work)... and there is no option to pick anything else! Grrrr!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :wtf: So basically, VS.NET 2003 Upgrade can only be installed from a local CD drive... so I can't install it until I open up my case, rip that Pioneer DVD-R drive out, throw it across the room, and replace it with something else... I'd like to take a stick to the idiot at Microsoft who designed that "feature". :lame: Oh well... at least the decision to keep using VC6 was an easy one (for now) and I don't have VS.NET 2002 wasting my disk space anymore.
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Cut the CD's to ISO's and then just mount it with MDeamon. :) leppie::AllocCPArticle("Zee blog");
Seen on my Campus BBS: Linux is free...coz no-one wants to pay for it.That was my suggestion, too. That usually works. But I had copied the entire contents to the shared drive and installed from there - no problems.
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Cut the CD's to ISO's and then just mount it with MDeamon. :) leppie::AllocCPArticle("Zee blog");
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